I am looking for a way to quickly and easily run some simple scripts - the most immediate example is the one line scripts for switching USB host mode on and off: echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode and echo otg > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode I really don't want to have to fire up the terminal and type these out (and yes I know tab auto complete can speed this up, but this is still not as easy as a menu item!) I am very much a noob so the following idea may be naive and may be shot down immediately: I am assuming I could create a menu item that would run a shell script? Not sure whether these desktop files need to point at executables or whether executable scripts are also OK? [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 ?? needed? Name=MyShinyScript Exec=/usr/bin/myscript.sh (or .py or whatever) Icon=MyNiceIcon (I can create the correct transparent png) Type=Application ?? needed? StartupWMClass= ?? needed? X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable ?? needed? X-Osso-Service=com.nokia. ?? needed? I am guessing MyShinyScript would look something like: #!/bin/sh echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode I know I must make the scripts executable with chmod +x Of course all this is probably going to be superceded by some kind person who has set up Scratchbox and got their teeth into real programming - a proper Maemo application which installs a simple host mode on-off utility would seem to be a logical development, but in the meanwhile, a scripted hack would be good for me! Please could somebody tell me if my mad idea will work or whether I should go home and start proper application development? Cheers J -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071229/89e2c5c8/attachment.htm
